Combined pipe case and tobacco pouch



March 12, 1946. A. DUBSKY COMBINED PIPE CASE AND TOBACCO POUCH File27,1943

' fl TTORIVEY Patented Mar. 12, 1946 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICECOMBINED PIPE CASE AND TOBACCO POUCH 1 Claim.

Thisinvention relates to a tobacco pouch made of a flexible and foldablematerial, such as for instance leather, which is fastened by means of aclosing flap. The object of this invention is to combine such a tobaccopouch with a pipe case.

The essential feature of this invention is that both the front and theback wall of the pouch are suitably extended so as to form a foldingpouch and thatthe foldable extensions thereof are devised so as to forma pipe case, which is composed of a casing for the pipe bowl and asheath for the pipe stem, thus combining the tobacco pouch with a pipecase in a manner that the two receptacles can be shut from each other bythe fold common to both. According to the invention the arrangement issothat when the tobacco pouch is open, i. e. when the extensions of thetwo walls of the tobacco pouch, which form the closing flap, areunfolded, the pipe case, devised in between these extensions of the twowalls of the pouch, that lie upon each other, is also open. At the pipecase filling opening the two walls are loosely lapped on each other inconvenient length, i. e. a length corresponding to the filling openingof the pouch.

It is thus a characteristic feature of this combination of a tobaccopouch and a pipe case that the tobacco pouch and the pipe case have acommon filling opening through which, when the fastening flaps areopened, both receptacles are accessible, i. e. the pouch may then befilled with tobacco and the pipe may be placed into, or taken out of,the pipe case.

By this invention the pipe case is formed by the foldable extensions ofthe front and back walls of the tobacco pouch so that, when the latteris closed by way of folding, the case for the pipe bowl will not lieupon the pouch; i. e. the bowl case and the tobacco pouch will not lieupon each other, but that, instead, the bowl case will be situatedbeside the tobacco pouch. Such a device serves the purpose that,notwithstanding the combinationof the tobacco pouch with a pipe case,the tobacco pouch, when filled, will not become bulky on account of thepipe. For the same purpose the invention also provides that the portionof the pipe case that forms the sheath for the stem and/or mouthpiece isarranged just so far above the fold that when the tobacco pouch isfolded up the pipe stem will lie just below the fold of the pouch, i. e.on the thinnest part of the filled and folded pouch. So the pipe stemdoes not cause bulkiness of the filled pouch either. By placing thesheath for the pipe stem opposite the pipe bowl case adjacent to thefilling opening a supporting layer is formed for the pipe stem so thatits falling out of the pipe case is prevented.

A combined tobacco pouch and pipe case of such kindmay be readilydevised so that the portion of the pipe case meant as a receptacle forthe pipe bowl is widened, forinstance by the provision of a gusset, soas to be suitable for casing the pipe bowl. This pipe bowl case islapping over the tobacco pouch and will prevent the tobacco from runningout of the pouch in this place, i. e. where the bowl case is, even ifthe folding flaps are open. Such a device will easily permit thepocket-like cavity for the pipe bowl to'be used as a supporting layerbetween tobacco and pipe bowl, which,

in turn, will allow thepipe bowl to be filled within the case, while thetobacco pouch is open, without need of a tobacco filler and without needto use ones fingers, in short, without any expedient whatsoever.

Another characteristic feature of the tobacco pouch that is the objectof this invention is the combination of two receptacles of differentsizes, of which the larger one, viz. the tobacco pouch, is fastened by afold, whereas the other receptacle, viz. the pipe case, which the samefold shuts off from the tobacco pouch, is open and accessible fromoutside and/or from within the filling opening, a device that is meantto prevent the tobacco from taking the unpleasant smell of the usedpipe.

The drawing shows an embodiment of a tobacco pouch combined with a pipecase in accordance with the invention. Fig. 1 gives a front View of thetobacco pouch in closed position, Fig. 2 in open position; Fig. 3 showsa cross section taken on line B, B of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 gives a plan viewof Fig. 2; Fig. 5 shows a cross section taken on line A, A of Fig. 1;Fig. 6 is a side view of Fig. 1 in the direction of the arrow C; andFig. 7 shows a cross section taken on line A, A while the tobacco pouchis filled with tobacco. The two walls of the tobacco pouch in thedrawing, i. e. front I and back 2 are extended beyond the fold 3 (seeFigs. 1 and 2) so as to form a folding pouch of which the saidextensions together constitute the closing flap, and which by means offolding, or bending, of these extensions of the walls in the fold isthus fastened in, or by, this fold. By means of a snap fastener 4 theextensions of the two walls, which together form the closing flap, maybe kept folded and closed. It is between the two folding extensions ofthe walls that a pipe case is devised consisting of a case 5 for thepipe bowl and a sheath 6 for the pipe stem. The arrangement is so thatthe pipe case 5, 6, formed in between the extensions of the walls, willbe length corresponding to the width of the filling opening, are looselylapping on each other. Thus,

both the tobacco pouch 8 and the pipe case 5, 6

are accessible through the filling opening when the tobacco pouch isopen, in such a position permitting tobacco to be filled into the pouchand 1e pipe to be placed into, or to be taken'out of, the pipe case. Asshown in the drawing (Figs. 3 and l), part of the pipe case 5, 6 iswidened, for instance by the provision of a gusset ID, forming a casewide enough for the pipe bowl; this pipe bowl case is so arranged thatwhen the tobacco pouch is closed or folded it does not lie upon thepouch 8 but beside, i. e. outside the latter. This serves the purposethat when the tobacco pouch stem to lie just below the fold whenthepouch is closed by folding. This place will be the thinnest part of thefilled and closed tobacco pouch (as shown in Fig. '7) so that the pipestem will not cause bulkiness of the filled tobacco pouch either.

The drawing shows that, when the pouch is open, the pipe bowl case 5flaps over the tobacco pouch 8 50 that the running out of tobacco fromthe pouch, while open, will be prevented in this place. The pipe bowlcase 5 will thus also serve as a supporting layer both for the pipe bowland between the latter and the tobacco and allow the bowl to be filledwithout any expedient within the tobacco pouch.

By way of joining the extensions of the tobacco pouch opposite the pipebowl case 5 and adjacent to the filling opening I a supporting layer 9for the pipe stem is formed, which will support the pipe stem lyingexposed between the folding extensions of the sides and prevent itsfalling out of the pipe case.

With such an arrangement when the tobacco pouch is closed and its sidesare folded up the pipe bowl case 5 will find itself beside said tobaccopouch and the latter may have, notwithstanding its combination with thepipe case, a filling opening of convenient size, and no, or only anunimportant, reduction of the width of this filling opening with regardto the width of the tobacco pouch 8 will he required.

In the drawing only the outer wall 2 of the extension of the tobaccopouch, which is somewhat longer than the inner side, has been used forthe snap fastening device 4.

I claim:

A combined tobacco and pipe pouch formed of flexible leather comprisingspaced front and rear walls and a bottom wall forming a pouch forholding tobacco, integral upward extensions on said front and rear wallsforming prolongations of said front andrear walls, said upwardextensions extending laterally and upwardly and having their edgesclosed forming a lateral offset pocket, said extending walls and pocketforming an upper pipe pouch for holding a pipe with the bowl in saidpocket, the material between the tobacco pouch and the pipe pouch beingfoldable whereby the pipe pouch is adapted to be folded over the tobaccopouch in intimate contact therewith with the pipe bowl pocket offsetlaterally from the tobacco pouch and forming an elongation thereof whenthe parts are in folded position.

ARTHUR DUBSKY.

